Re: st: Dropping Variables - Simple Question

[Daniel Schneider <daniel.schneider@stanford.edu>]

You can't. More importantly, why would you want to do that? Most (all?) 
commands will drop missing values anyway when producing results.

tiago.pereira@incor.usp.br wrote:

> Dear statalisters,
>
> I have a simple question:
>
> Supose I have two variables, X and Y with 50 and 75 observations,
> respectively. How do I delete the first 25 observations of the variable Y
> without losing the first 25 observations of the X variable?
>
> Although simple, I have not been able to find out a solution.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tiago
>
>
>
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